Slideshow: Statement of power

F
ancy a little wrist candy? Something that really grabs people’s attention?
You’re far from alone. These days, anyone who wants to seem like a
fashionable “somebody”, and is looking for an easy way to advertise that
they’re a high achiever, is pimping up their wrist. Watches have never been
bigger — both physically and metaphorically.

They’re all at it, those celebs, flaunting large chunks of time-telling
equipment like modern badges of power. Their time is money, wads of it, so
they mark it with grandeur. See Victoria Beckham with her omnipresent
rose-gold Rolex, Dizzee Rascal with his Raymond Weil, Jessie J with her
Piaget, Emmanuelle Alt with her Cartier Tank and Laura Bailey with her
Chanel J12. Even that whippersnapper Harry Styles has a £23,000 Audemars
Piguet watch — it was his fourth “get me” purchase, after a London flat and
two cars (a Range Rover and an Audi).